Kaukauna Times - September 1900
The official election
ticket this fall will be four feet long and three feet wide, a sheet of paper
as large as two sections of The Times laid side by side. The voter that tries
to cast a split ballot with that kind of a ticket will have a monkey and parrot
time.
The big Thilmany Pulp
and Paper mill is all shut down commencing from last Monday. A new water wheel
is to be placed and the flume is to be rebuilt which thus necessitates a
complete shut down for at least a month.
Herman Kramer, the Lawe
Street blacksmith, has his face and arms badly burned Wednesday. He had arranged a fire with which to heat a
couple of tires for shrinking on some wheels. He saturated the wood with
gasoline which he thought was kerosene. After soaking the wood, he applied a
match and the explosion followed.
September 14, 1900
Over two thousand lives
are believed to have been lost in the West Indian hurricane that left a trial
of death and destruction over half the great State of Texas. Many towns were
destroyed and telegraphic communications with the imperiled region was cut off.
September 21, 1900
Night Foremen Mike
O’Boyle of the Union Bag and Paper Company found a big pine snake in the pulp
pile of the mill. It measured 3 ½ feet
in length and its body was two inches through and covered with salmon and brown
colored spots. O’Boyle succeeded in killing it.
September 28, 1900
The tall brick chimney
at the Thilmany Pulp & Paper mill boiler house is to be built 29 feet
higher. The work has been commenced two
or three times by Menasha parties who at last acknowledge their inability to go
on and complete it, and Monday morning contractors August Kneuppel of Appleton
took the work in hand under a contract to complete it at double the amount
asked by the other builders.
Those who neglected the
opportunity of hearing Dennison Wheelock, the Oneida who spoke here last
Monday, missed a treat. Mr. Wheelock spoke for an hour, very fluently on the
red man and cleared up some of the fallacies that exist concerning him.
If you see a man coming
down the street with a big basket of groceries on his arm and a smile on his
face just make up your mind he came from Lang’s, the place where you get your
money’s worth every time.
The contract for the
plumbing and marble work for the Y. M. C. A. improvements was let to J, A.
Bailey, mason, and carpenter work to August Kneuppel of Appleton. The total
price is $1,300.
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According to a dispatch
from Rome, women are to be barred from singing in the choirs of the Catholic
churches. It is said that high officials of the church have sent forth the
edict and that it will be announced in this country shortly.
The Kaukauna High
School football team have organized for the season of 1900. The outlook is
better this season than it has been for years. The businessmen have taken great
interest in the high school by contributing over $50 for the football funds to
bring out a championship team. Dr. Blair has been engaged as coach and is
rapidly rounding the boys into shape for the first game of the season with the
Third Ward High School of Appleton, September 29.
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